I hate smilies.
Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate smilies, especially when text I enter in a post gets turned into smilies.
Is it possible for DU to make available a command that disables the smiley generator in text? Sort of a [nosmiley][/no smiley] thing?
Yeah, I know what's coming.
Source: https://condenaststore.com/featured/new-yorker-september-26th-2016-roz-chast.html
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i.e. ") produces a "
?
In case anyone is interested, there's a special trick to make it display ")
I do so by sticking a [/b] inside of it which gums up whatever is translating it into a "
and I used the same trick in the last line above to make it display [/b] , instead of having it simply disappear like formatting codes do.
that DU makes invisible or renders into something else like ") into " by the [/b] hack. Strictly for expository purposes. I learned that one from DUer Make7.
Very handy for showing the URL for a graphic that DU automatically renders as the graphic.
e.g.
https://i.imgur.com/S314Fmt.png
the above has the [/b] stuck in it, so it displays the URL rather than the graphic.
Without the [/b] thing, DU renders into
J/K 
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